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[Yrgkala]

[DustyDrake]

fantasy diplomet?

[Yrgkala]

fantasy diplomet?

Now that you say it, it can be read like that; it's not intentional, the worm's tongue wasn't meant to modify the letter

[DustyDrake]

actually it's also the shading on the 'a' in it as well, because it's different from the other two 'a's in the picture.

I never even noticed the snake's tongue until you said something

[Yrgkala]

Right,

[Xion]

why the filter?

[Yrgkala]

I like low-opacity texture overlaid on upscaled pixelart, with the texture strongly sharpened by itself and then again sharpened merged with the pixelart, because then it looks like printed on a physical medium, which I think makes it more immersive.

[Μarkham]

It looks like it was printed on the crumpled tin foil wrapping of a mint patty.

[emacs]

I don't think it looks bad at all, it's a hell of a lot better than some of the other pixel pieces that have a NPA texture on them I've seen around here.

[Rykuth]

I don't mind the texture bit, but I liked the contrast on the image before the filtering. I think it's harder to read afterwords because of the decrease in contrast. This is especially true for me in the lighter areas like the text and the heads/faces.

[Yrgkala]

* Brightened up the entire image to make room for 1 color darker than all others, for outlines, to make it more readable
* Made the positioning of the text less arbitrary
* Removed texture & sharpness
* Eyes of different color, to imply different controlling players
* Removed the king as he was too messy, replaced his position with a textbox by the axeman, also making more room for the text

[Franklin's Ghost]

Looking really nice, like the eye colour change but think the size difference between the F and the rest of the letters is too much.

[HöllenKobold]

I think you should change the title font. The white is kinda blaring in comparison to the rest of the palette. I think something like a soft yellow would work a lot better.

[Yrgkala]

Looking really nice,

Thanks

like the eye colour change but think the size difference between the F and the rest of the letters is too much.

With that it was meant to recall medieval initials:


But the silhouette of the table had to remain as visible as possible (because it should be very visibly the CORE of the image as negotiations around a table would be the CORE of the game), so it couldn't be detailed & rectangular like medieval initials (often?) were; also, I think placement that stretches (almost) completely from one edge of "something" to another edge of "something", looks more "balanced".

I think you should change the title font. The white is kinda blaring in comparison to the rest of the palette. I think something like a soft yellow would work a lot better.

The message boxes on the image are already very bright grey, and the text has to be brighter than them.

[Franklin's Ghost]

With that it was meant to recall medieval initials:

Good point, can't argue with that

[Geti]

What's stopping you moving the text below the image? Right now they clash like anything, the F completely cuts the image in half.

[Yrgkala]

I suppose it does look better.
(originally I was going for the restrictions of this)

[Geti]

Ah, makes more sense that you're trying to cram stuff in then.


I'd shrink the F, put it in a coloured, enlightened text style box thing, and have the title at the bottom centre of the image if I was trying to fit it into that size. That way you've got your people around a table, negotiations, and the title all integrated rather than sitting on top of each other.

[Xion]

I don't mind the texture bit, but I liked the contrast on the image before the filtering. I think it's harder to read afterwords because of the decrease in contrast. This is especially true for me in the lighter areas like the text and the heads/faces.

I agree with this. The original's contrast was spot on, everything after has been washed out and posterized and just plain doesn't look good imho.

[TobiasW]

This version. It's perfect. Peeeerfect.